The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar. Art consists of the persistence of memory.

I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery is sometimes funny, sometimes terrible, always painfully honest. The matching of Eminem and Rihanna on "Love the Way You Lie" is pure genius. "Not Afraid" is pretty great too.

the look of the sky as the day's blue blood runs out of its cheek.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

no one dies happy, you can only die well

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.